A YEAR OF PROGRESS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 12, 28 December 1925, Page 7

A YEAR OF PROGRESS.

RECOVERY OF BRITISH TRADE. MOSUL A WEAK SPOT. London, Dec. 27. In the “Observer,” Mr J. L- Garvin, reviewing 1925, says: “There are encouraging signs of a definite recovery of trade. The Government owes the firmness of its position more to the weakness of the Labour and Lifierar Opposition than to its own virtues and performances. The British Empire as a whole has shown progress everywhere. Preference has been established hero as a principal past reversal. Australia and New Zealand, like Britain a year previously, have voted for sability, and in the Commonwealth violent Labour troubles have been overcome in a manner promising more settled conditions.’’ Air Garvin recalls that the position in India and Ireland has improved and states: “The greatest single achievement is the Locarno Pact, but there is one weak spot. Let none suppose Alosui will be as easily managed in the future as the Ministers and their facile majority suppose. We are erecting a little Ulster in that region by insisting on calling it part of Iraq. The test will come in 1928. when our part was to have been regarded as complete. It looks as though one issue in Hie next general election has already been decided upon.”—(A. and N.Z )